I started reading the comments as the video was playing and just saw your comment here - my interest in this distro immediately dropped to zero. I build and run Gentoo Linux on many systems, including 32-bit ones from years ago, like my trusty Pentium III-based Thinkpad T22 from 2004. Gentoo runs fine on it (and other 32-bit systems I have) but, of course, the compile times are very long on such machines. I used to use 32-bit Arch on those systems before they dropped support for it. Legacy OS sounded promising until I realised how badly named it is now, and thanks to your comment.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 Pentium 3 in 2004??? Surprising. I have an old 32bit Dell laptop from 2005 which uses a Core Duo, so already moved on from Pentium 4. It has Debian 32bit on it. Mostly I use it to play audiobooks and podcasts in the bedroom or kitchen.
@@MrJakeTucker It's not my only machine, I just like repairing and refurbishing old IBM and Lenovo Thinkpads - ultimately meaning banishment to the garage by the wife who didn't like tripping over the things in the house! To be fair, I still use it once a week, at least. I run Gentoo Linux on it and it has a great keyboard - I SSH into my home server to write a few scripts, have mutt email on the second virtual desktop and music playing on the third. A nice and pleasurable computing experience with no distractions - very nice!
My dad's 2009 machine is running latest GNOME on NixOS. It has 2 GB RAM (+6 GB swap), some Intel Pentium CPU and Nvidia 9500GT with open-source drivers. It's perfectly usable.
Thank you for showing this! I tried it in live usb mode - on old Dell laptop which came with a Broadcom wifi device - and which a number of tiny linux distros do not have working driver modules for. But legacy OS detected its wifi adapter at startup - and I was up and running with it. It really truly is legacy! Nice! Thanks. :-]
My understanding of the save live disk changes is that if you make any changes in the settings of the live usb those changes will be brought over into the installed OS.
I'm running Slackware-current on my 2006 OG white polycarbonate MacBook1,1 and it works just fine. This original first MacBook (the one with the integrated numeric keypad and user-replaceable battery) runs a 32-bit-ONLY 2.0GHz CoreDuo 'Yonah' CPU and can only be upgraded to Mac OS X 10.6.8 'Snow Leopard'. Now, Snow Leopard is still a dandy OS, though it doesn't know anything about iCloud. I'm actually dual-booting between Snow Leopard and Slackware. I keep Snow Leopard around for my old 32-bit Mac apps and I use Slackware when I need a more modern web browser than the archaic relics that Snow Leopard supports. MacPorts under Snow Leopard is giving me fits because, while it is supposed to support Intel Macs back to Mac OS X 10.6, many of the provided utilities are provided for the Core2Duo that will support 64-bit code, but my MacBook won't. Fortunately, when Slackware went to 64-bit, they released Slackware64 alongside their old 32-bit Slackware and are keeping both versions completely up to date. I don't need to run an 'old' Linux on my old MacBook.
64 bit CPU started to come in on 2007 (The year i started with 64Bit Xeons on Intel S5000 and Other Desktop CPUs on good old "Intel Bad Axe 2" Mobo). That was abt 16 yrs back. Time flies. Peace :-)
A bit curious that a low-end OS, especially one that has "Legacy" in its name is 64bit only. No love for 32bit anymore. Oh well, by this time I guess only Gentoo makes sense to install on TRULY old hardware.
@@AndersJackson I remember not long ago that 386 support was dropped. And Linus expressed hope that 486 support will be dropped soon too, in order to do some cleanup. But, yeah, Debian still has 32 bit support. And I'm pretty sure AntiX too. Surely there are others too, though, understandably, their number is dwindling. But why I said Gentoo is because of the amount you can customize it. There's a video on YT with a madman who installed the latest Gentoo at that time on a 486 in 2018 or 2019. Of course, it was compiled on another computer, but still, quite impressive.
why only Gentoo? I think you are missing interesting distros like Void Linux that does support 32bits or loc OS also Alpine Linux, even Slackware or debian and Devuan too
@@maxcontreras. Ha, correct, I am missing on those. I simply didn't had them in memory when I wrote it, and it's not something I had to dabble in recently. From your list, I know about all, except loc OS. Is that a capital i or a lowercase L ? Never heard of that one. I'll check it out.
@@Winnetou17 haha it is normal not to remember everything at the first time, "Loc-OS" is relatively new it was based on antix and MX Linux, but it was separated from this, although it takes some elements like using the init, "SysVinit" (But compiled and with a more current version) and another feature is that it uses lxde and besides apt, it has its low level package manager, and its creator Nicolas Longardi is Uruguayan, currently living in Brazil. And I am from Argentina so my English is not very good, sorry.
Looks good! I saw WattOS came back from the dead in a similar vein to this and it runs really well. It's dumbfounding how Firefox runs faster in WattOS on an Intel Atom with 4GB than on modern Ubuntu flavors on modern machines. I've tried a few others like this and might have to look at this one next. Thanks!
Interesting Distro. I may have to pull out one of my old E6500's and try it. They ran well most of the time in Ubuntu 12.04, but you get a JavaScript heavy dashboard with live updates and the poor things crawled.
I haven't used Legacy OS, but I have tried AntiX. One reason systemd might be installed is because AntiX's login manager expects it to be there. For instance an issue me and many people had was that the login manager wouldn't recognize certain settings, such "when the laptop lid is closed, do X" meant nothing in the GUI, the option is simply broken. You have to use the terminal. It might be that systemd is just there to set configuration files and nothing else.
Puppy linux would be a better option for older 32bit machines.I have saved several old laptops from the landfill by installing puppy on them and they run great.
For old computers without 32bit iso... Well... I will use WC in an other way... Maybe you can speak about archlinux32. That is a distribution for old computers.
I think I'll stick with MX Linux as it has both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. I can replace the window manager if the old hardware needs something lighter weight than XFCE.
The real test would be to install it on an actual old machine, something like a single core Celeron with onboard graphics, 4GB RAM and 120GB spinning rust. But I still wouldn't choose this instead of AntiX proper
@@ghost-user559 AMD Opteron and Athlon 64 were released in 2003; Intel followed suit with Pentium 4 Prescott in 2004. I'd say 20 years is enough to be old.
@@BringMayFlowers I agree, that’s completely true, and it certainly is vintage. But 32 bit goes back to 1985. Which I’m sure we will both concede covers considerably more machines and a much greater length of time. Not that many are running anything that old, but still.
@@ghost-user559 While that's true, Linux 6.1 is the last release with 486 support, and nobody using a Pentium III/Athlon XP or older is doing so without knowing exactly what they're doing and how to do so. The most likely 32-bit generation I can think of someone trying to revive as their daily PC is maybe Pentium 4/Core Duo, or maybe a Bay Trail or Core 2 Duo running in 32-bit mode because of the 32-bit EFI. But I have a Pentium N3540 Bay Trail laptop and full-fat Fedora 37 KDE still runs well on it, and LXQt+Sawfish runs even better. As do I have a MacBook2,1 with T7400+32-bit EFI, same deal with Fedora. I definitely agree that making it 64 bit only is kind of pointless, since Fedora themselves recommend as low as an Opteron 248 with Radeon 9700, and I can believe it would run well on that. But I can't say there's no niche for it... just not one that antiX wouldn't serve and then some.
@@BringMayFlowers I didn’t get notifications for this for some reason? Yeah that’s certainly true, but I also have a relatively “new” 32 bit Acer netbook with the absolutely weak Atmos processor, and I know there are several machines that as you noted have 32 bit EFI. Although Antix and Puppy have options currently, the real joy of reviving a truly archaic machine and brining it into the modern era is something unique. More than that, I imagine anyone running something old enough to need true legacy support is either very tech savvy, as in an enthusiast, or very old and using outdated hardware, or very poor and using second hand hardware and especially in other countries that certainly is more common than not.
Bro do a Cachy OS review. Anyway im still on Fedora but use Cachy OS kernels they are neat and mentioned on the arch wiki for optimization tips. There is also a very interesting benchmark on phoronix.
libdvdcss is not proprietary or non-free software. It is free software released under a GNU GPL licence (didn't look up which version). It is also not a video codec, it gives access to encrypted DVDs that use CSS (most commercial DVDs).
It would be fun to have a puppy linux guide. they have so many distros based of them and their site is... less than optimal to explain their differences.
I'd been using Lubuntu for years but it was getting a little obese for my taste, so after a two-week trial run I finally did a full install of antiX about a month ago and I absolutely love it.
My dad's 2009 hardware machine is running latest GNOME on NixOS. It has 2 GB RAM (+6 GB swap), some Intel Pentium CPU and Nvidia 9500GT with open-source drivers. It's perfectly usable.
The really last manufactured Intel 32-bit "computer" I could make out was a Galileo Gen 2 (launch date 2014), hardly a deskop but an Arduino-like thing. There are some Atoms around sometimes used in older laptops or in my QNAP for instance, they date back to 2009 roughly. I don't really think 32-bit is still a thing anymore for desktop/laptop daily use, especially anything modern on browser will not work or work too slowly..
2011 was the last desktop OS CPU Intel designed, the Intel Atom Z600 series. I reckon a lot of older 32 bit systems are faster than that, though. Intel and AMD both had at least dual core 32-bit CPUs which were decent for their time. Might be a big hard to run streaming etc. but more than enough for browsing and typical workflows if you get the right software.
Greetings, I intend to do a dual boot with legacy os 2023 and previously testing with usb-live, I cannot read the partition that I have mounted with ntfs; I don't know if perhaps by installing it on the hard disk this can be corrected. Thank you.
i've been a (very happy) full time linux user sine 2009, and yet, this is still kinda confusing, lol, so, this is like a puppy family, but it's antix, which is debian, lol.
Nope, it's Gentoo. I can run Gentoo on anything from a Raspberry Pi Zero to a multi-CPU workstation in my home - many machines I have between those are 32-bit and Arch lost favour with me when they dropped 32-bit support a few years ago. Gentoo takes longer to compile and install but it supports many more types of architectures.
@@Wonderingax Choose what works for you - if Gentoo didn't exist I would probably be running Arch myself, to be honest. I like putting Linux on old hardware and I have never been someone that likes heavy desktops with lots of eye candy - I've always considered the "Windows Classic" GUI that was at its best by the time Windows XP came out as one of the best GUIs ever because it just lets you run your applications and stays out of the way. On Linux, I run XFCE and i3 on my own Gentoo builds and it amazes me that I can run the same GUI environment on a Pentium III-based Thinkpad T22 from 2000 through a Raspberry Pi Zero to a multi-CPU workstation. There are not many distros that let you do that.
if it's for older hardware and underpowered systems, having only a 64 bit release completly defeats the purpose. "it's for older hardware... but you totally need a new computer to run it, it won't run on your older computer". it's insane.
That was the default which includes things like the ROX Desktop and Volume icon, and Conky. If you press F1 at the login screen and select the min-icewm (minimum IceWM configuration), you will get a much better number. Of course the amount Xorg takes (being the largest ram user) is going to determine the end result, but I tried it on an old Dell and it used 143MB per Htop. The version of IceWM includes tiling ability built in, BTW.
I would be happy if they had a community edition of ChromeOS - fast boot etc esp for school kid type 2 in 1's. This way it doesn't have the stupid Google Woke Crappy backgrounds and "quotes" built in. Conky shouldn't be on a "legacy" hw imo.
LinuxFX is cool but you wouldn't mention it in the same sentence as legacy hardware. It's an absolute resource hog, probably due to the Windows 10 theme pack.
15:04 and you can see why dt and all systemD fanboys are dangerous for linux... they do not really know other init systems and why typing whereis systemD shows these results and what these mean... sorry DT you do it again and again... i suggest better stay on wm's and the copy paste commands of systemD.... OTHER INITS are for real linux users!
"Legacy OS does not have a 32-bit ISO." Then it is poorly named.
Agree 100%.
Puppy does have a 32 bit. Bionic pup I think has a 32 bit iso.
True that.
If it doesn't run on my dad's 8 bit computer from the 80s then it's a scam
Good point. Plenty of old 32-bit machines out there.
I think a legacy os should have a 32bit iso.
I started reading the comments as the video was playing and just saw your comment here - my interest in this distro immediately dropped to zero.
I build and run Gentoo Linux on many systems, including 32-bit ones from years ago, like my trusty Pentium III-based Thinkpad T22 from 2004. Gentoo runs fine on it (and other 32-bit systems I have) but, of course, the compile times are very long on such machines. I used to use 32-bit Arch on those systems before they dropped support for it.
Legacy OS sounded promising until I realised how badly named it is now, and thanks to your comment.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 Pentium 3 in 2004??? Surprising. I have an old 32bit Dell laptop from 2005 which uses a Core Duo, so already moved on from Pentium 4. It has Debian 32bit on it. Mostly I use it to play audiobooks and podcasts in the bedroom or kitchen.
@@MrJakeTucker It's not my only machine, I just like repairing and refurbishing old IBM and Lenovo Thinkpads - ultimately meaning banishment to the garage by the wife who didn't like tripping over the things in the house!
To be fair, I still use it once a week, at least. I run Gentoo Linux on it and it has a great keyboard - I SSH into my home server to write a few scripts, have mutt email on the second virtual desktop and music playing on the third.
A nice and pleasurable computing experience with no distractions - very nice!
@@terrydaktyllus1320 Yes, I was just surprised that a laptop from 2004 would have a P3.
@@MrJakeTucker I stand corrected. Just checked on Wikipedia, the Thinkpad T22 was released in 2000, not 2004.
My dad's 2009 machine is running latest GNOME on NixOS. It has 2 GB RAM (+6 GB swap), some Intel Pentium CPU and Nvidia 9500GT with open-source drivers. It's perfectly usable.
How long is the boot time?
@@ifeellikedirt About a minute or so. I've replaced the dead WinXP HDD with a $15 SSD as the only hardware upgrade.
Nice man!!
That’s one way to keep an old computer running.
Thank you for showing this! I tried it in live usb mode - on old Dell laptop which came with a Broadcom wifi device - and which a number of tiny linux distros do not have working driver modules for. But legacy OS detected its wifi adapter at startup - and I was up and running with it. It really truly is legacy! Nice! Thanks. :-]
puppy linux stood the test of time, since 2008 been using it
My understanding of the save live disk changes is that if you make any changes in the settings of the live usb those changes will be brought over into the installed OS.
+1 That's my understanding too.
Its exactly what you said
What… no 8bit version for 8086/8088 CPUs, CGA video cards and 300 baud modems? !!!
Cool review 🔥🤘
I'm running Slackware-current on my 2006 OG white polycarbonate MacBook1,1 and it works just fine.
This original first MacBook (the one with the integrated numeric keypad and user-replaceable battery) runs a 32-bit-ONLY 2.0GHz CoreDuo 'Yonah' CPU and can only be upgraded to Mac OS X 10.6.8 'Snow Leopard'.
Now, Snow Leopard is still a dandy OS, though it doesn't know anything about iCloud. I'm actually dual-booting between Snow Leopard and Slackware. I keep Snow Leopard around for my old 32-bit Mac apps and I use Slackware when I need a more modern web browser than the archaic relics that Snow Leopard supports.
MacPorts under Snow Leopard is giving me fits because, while it is supposed to support Intel Macs back to Mac OS X 10.6, many of the provided utilities are provided for the Core2Duo that will support 64-bit code, but my MacBook won't.
Fortunately, when Slackware went to 64-bit, they released Slackware64 alongside their old 32-bit Slackware and are keeping both versions completely up to date.
I don't need to run an 'old' Linux on my old MacBook.
64 bit CPU started to come in on 2007 (The year i started with 64Bit Xeons on Intel S5000 and Other Desktop CPUs on good old "Intel Bad Axe 2" Mobo). That was abt 16 yrs back. Time flies. Peace :-)
A bit curious that a low-end OS, especially one that has "Legacy" in its name is 64bit only. No love for 32bit anymore. Oh well, by this time I guess only Gentoo makes sense to install on TRULY old hardware.
Debian have 32 bit arhitectures, that is i386 and amd64.
But I believe you need a 80486 or newer.
@@AndersJackson I remember not long ago that 386 support was dropped. And Linus expressed hope that 486 support will be dropped soon too, in order to do some cleanup.
But, yeah, Debian still has 32 bit support. And I'm pretty sure AntiX too. Surely there are others too, though, understandably, their number is dwindling.
But why I said Gentoo is because of the amount you can customize it. There's a video on YT with a madman who installed the latest Gentoo at that time on a 486 in 2018 or 2019. Of course, it was compiled on another computer, but still, quite impressive.
why only Gentoo? I think you are missing interesting distros like Void Linux that does support 32bits or loc OS also Alpine Linux, even Slackware or debian and Devuan too
@@maxcontreras. Ha, correct, I am missing on those. I simply didn't had them in memory when I wrote it, and it's not something I had to dabble in recently.
From your list, I know about all, except loc OS. Is that a capital i or a lowercase L ? Never heard of that one. I'll check it out.
@@Winnetou17 haha it is normal not to remember everything at the first time, "Loc-OS" is relatively new it was based on antix and MX Linux, but it was separated from this, although it takes some elements like using the init, "SysVinit" (But compiled and with a more current version) and another feature is that it uses lxde and besides apt, it has its low level package manager, and its creator Nicolas Longardi is Uruguayan, currently living in Brazil. And I am from Argentina so my English is not very good, sorry.
Looks good! I saw WattOS came back from the dead in a similar vein to this and it runs really well. It's dumbfounding how Firefox runs faster in WattOS on an Intel Atom with 4GB than on modern Ubuntu flavors on modern machines. I've tried a few others like this and might have to look at this one next. Thanks!
Besides Tiny SliTaz, I've wanted to check out WattOS to make the most out of older laptops' battery lives.
Interesting Distro. I may have to pull out one of my old E6500's and try it. They ran well most of the time in Ubuntu 12.04, but you get a JavaScript heavy dashboard with live updates and the poor things crawled.
Ah yes, Puppy Linux. It provided much fun and was ideal for rescuing Windows data when Windows wouldn't boot.
My go to for old computers is Debian. You can make it as barebones as you wish and it supports 32bit 💪
I guess one of the best choices for 32bit machines will be Debian, I'm running a fresh install of Peppermint OS on my father's ancient dell laptop.
Peppermint is an underappreciated distro.
First of all, I LOVE rox filer!! Excellent video Derek!! Looks like a great distro.rox filer is very powerful!!
Ur "strong and complicated password" gets me every time
thunar is so great, good shoutout.
I haven't used Legacy OS, but I have tried AntiX. One reason systemd might be installed is because AntiX's login manager expects it to be there. For instance an issue me and many people had was that the login manager wouldn't recognize certain settings, such "when the laptop lid is closed, do X" meant nothing in the GUI, the option is simply broken. You have to use the terminal. It might be that systemd is just there to set configuration files and nothing else.
antiX has that so that programs from Debian that expect SystemD to be installed are kept happy. SystemD is definitely NOT installed.
Puppy linux would be a better option for older 32bit machines.I have saved several old laptops from the landfill by installing puppy on them and they run great.
Legacy os sound interesting
For old computers without 32bit iso... Well... I will use WC in an other way...
Maybe you can speak about archlinux32. That is a distribution for old computers.
I'll gladly help out with information about Archlinux32, I'm one of the maintainers.. :-)
I think I'll stick with MX Linux as it has both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. I can replace the window manager if the old hardware needs something lighter weight than XFCE.
kinda weird having no 32bit if you are an os for legacy machines but hey
6:25 people don't do that anymore? XD
Conky has a special place in my heart ;)
The real test would be to install it on an actual old machine, something like a single core Celeron with onboard graphics, 4GB RAM and 120GB spinning rust. But I still wouldn't choose this instead of AntiX proper
An actual old machine is very unlikely to be 64bit. So this is a strange distro from a legacy viewpoint
@@ghost-user559 AMD Opteron and Athlon 64 were released in 2003; Intel followed suit with Pentium 4 Prescott in 2004. I'd say 20 years is enough to be old.
@@BringMayFlowers I agree, that’s completely true, and it certainly is vintage. But 32 bit goes back to 1985. Which I’m sure we will both concede covers considerably more machines and a much greater length of time. Not that many are running anything that old, but still.
@@ghost-user559 While that's true, Linux 6.1 is the last release with 486 support, and nobody using a Pentium III/Athlon XP or older is doing so without knowing exactly what they're doing and how to do so. The most likely 32-bit generation I can think of someone trying to revive as their daily PC is maybe Pentium 4/Core Duo, or maybe a Bay Trail or Core 2 Duo running in 32-bit mode because of the 32-bit EFI. But I have a Pentium N3540 Bay Trail laptop and full-fat Fedora 37 KDE still runs well on it, and LXQt+Sawfish runs even better. As do I have a MacBook2,1 with T7400+32-bit EFI, same deal with Fedora.
I definitely agree that making it 64 bit only is kind of pointless, since Fedora themselves recommend as low as an Opteron 248 with Radeon 9700, and I can believe it would run well on that. But I can't say there's no niche for it... just not one that antiX wouldn't serve and then some.
@@BringMayFlowers I didn’t get notifications for this for some reason?
Yeah that’s certainly true, but I also have a relatively “new” 32 bit Acer netbook with the absolutely weak Atmos processor, and I know there are several machines that as you noted have 32 bit EFI. Although Antix and Puppy have options currently, the real joy of reviving a truly archaic machine and brining it into the modern era is something unique. More than that, I imagine anyone running something old enough to need true legacy support is either very tech savvy, as in an enthusiast, or very old and using outdated hardware, or very poor and using second hand hardware and especially in other countries that certainly is more common than not.
puppy was my first distro
Great! I still have a copy of an old version of it!
I still like to use rox filer. It was actually inspired by the file manager from the acorn riscos operating systen.
Bro do a Cachy OS review. Anyway im still on Fedora but use Cachy OS kernels they are neat and mentioned on the arch wiki for optimization tips. There is also a very interesting benchmark on phoronix.
Slackware level release cadence. I dig it.
Great video Thank you
Tweaking settings while copying system files is such a nice touch of its installer.
Once Wayland is adopted by all desktops. Linux will see wider adoption.
libdvdcss is not proprietary or non-free software. It is free software released under a GNU GPL licence (didn't look up which version). It is also not a video codec, it gives access to encrypted DVDs that use CSS (most commercial DVDs).
It would be fun to have a puppy linux guide.
they have so many distros based of them and their site is... less than optimal to explain their differences.
archive.org/details/puppylinux?&sort=-week&page=2
The Load average is impressive and probably as or more important than ram on old Hardware
Hey could you try Loc OS? I think Loc OS, which is superior to legacy OS and does support x86_32bits architecture (and obviously x64 too)
I would install antiX directly instead.
I'd been using Lubuntu for years but it was getting a little obese for my taste, so after a two-week trial run I finally did a full install of antiX about a month ago and I absolutely love it.
DWM sounds good
I bet this distro would be really snappy on an old 4GB RAM machine.
My dad's 2009 hardware machine is running latest GNOME on NixOS. It has 2 GB RAM (+6 GB swap), some Intel Pentium CPU and Nvidia 9500GT with open-source drivers. It's perfectly usable.
Wtf is the point of "legacy" if there isnt a 32bit iso
The really last manufactured Intel 32-bit "computer" I could make out was a Galileo Gen 2 (launch date 2014), hardly a deskop but an Arduino-like thing. There are some Atoms around sometimes used in older laptops or in my QNAP for instance, they date back to 2009 roughly. I don't really think 32-bit is still a thing anymore for desktop/laptop daily use, especially anything modern on browser will not work or work too slowly..
2011 was the last desktop OS CPU Intel designed, the Intel Atom Z600 series. I reckon a lot of older 32 bit systems are faster than that, though. Intel and AMD both had at least dual core 32-bit CPUs which were decent for their time. Might be a big hard to run streaming etc. but more than enough for browsing and typical workflows if you get the right software.
Older 64bit machines specifically
the package installer is so cool. I though of making one with bash for my debian installation. but my bash skills are yuk.
Greetings, I intend to do a dual boot with legacy os 2023 and previously testing with usb-live, I cannot read the partition that I have mounted with ntfs; I don't know if perhaps by installing it on the hard disk this can be corrected. Thank you.
On the software installer, is a program is greyed out. It means it's installed already.
i've been a (very happy) full time linux user sine 2009, and yet, this is still kinda confusing, lol, so, this is like a puppy family, but it's antix, which is debian, lol.
btw, best distro is still arch
true
Nope, it's Gentoo. I can run Gentoo on anything from a Raspberry Pi Zero to a multi-CPU workstation in my home - many machines I have between those are 32-bit and Arch lost favour with me when they dropped 32-bit support a few years ago. Gentoo takes longer to compile and install but it supports many more types of architectures.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 I may take that into consideration. I just found Arch more convenient for me as a student
@@Wonderingax Choose what works for you - if Gentoo didn't exist I would probably be running Arch myself, to be honest.
I like putting Linux on old hardware and I have never been someone that likes heavy desktops with lots of eye candy - I've always considered the "Windows Classic" GUI that was at its best by the time Windows XP came out as one of the best GUIs ever because it just lets you run your applications and stays out of the way.
On Linux, I run XFCE and i3 on my own Gentoo builds and it amazes me that I can run the same GUI environment on a Pentium III-based Thinkpad T22 from 2000 through a Raspberry Pi Zero to a multi-CPU workstation. There are not many distros that let you do that.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 I was thinking of Gentoo for my RPi4. Do you use distcc for compiling?
Hey DT , Can you review Exodia OS Home edition
Install it on 256 MB RAM. Windows XP can run on 256 MB RAM. Run a browser on it.
if it's for older hardware and underpowered systems, having only a 64 bit release completly defeats the purpose. "it's for older hardware... but you totally need a new computer to run it, it won't run on your older computer". it's insane.
After installing Gnome 43 to Gentoo it also used below 300Mb of RAM. So is Gnome actually bloated?
Is there any 64 bit legacy hardware for this distro to have a home on?
What margin and border size do you use for your qtile config ?
372MB RAM usage after start is too much. My i3wm uses ~150MB.
That was the default which includes things like the ROX Desktop and Volume icon, and Conky. If you press F1 at the login screen and select the min-icewm (minimum IceWM configuration), you will get a much better number. Of course the amount Xorg takes (being the largest ram user) is going to determine the end result, but I tried it on an old Dell and it used 143MB per Htop. The version of IceWM includes tiling ability built in, BTW.
Because it's based on antiX, does Legacy OS run from RAM?
It can. Its a boot option I'm pretty sure.
Sir please make a review on BOSS
so for legacy pc's but not 32 bit weird
😁 👌👍
"Legacy OS does not have a 32 bit iso"...the irony
How is it better than Puppy Linux?
i don't dislike the vid i dislike that this project says it is for legacy systems but it does not support 32bit systems so not really legacy systems
I would be happy if they had a community edition of ChromeOS - fast boot etc esp for school kid type 2 in 1's. This way it doesn't have the stupid Google Woke Crappy backgrounds and "quotes" built in. Conky shouldn't be on a "legacy" hw imo.
There's a degoogled ChromeOS Flex distro out there somewhere. Can't remember the name though.
nah, i only use arch btw
please make a video on goboLinux. thanks
First? Again?
Second and first reply
Third and second reply
Fourth and third reply
What is this about?
@@Amos_Huclkeberry you're fifth and forth reply, obviously
Confused name, bad start up for it
Just no need for this. We got antix which does all this already and antix comes in a 32 bit distro
Spacefm
zzzfm (a fork of spacefm) is already installed and can be made the default with a few clicks in the Control Center in the Preferred Applications app
@@thriftybob Ah, thanks for the info.
spacefm
zzzfm (a fork of spacefm) is already installed and can be made the default with a few clicks in the Control Center in the Preferred Applications app
just run ChromeOS
i mean why would you want to make your old computer useful?
ah yes privacy intrusive and closed source web only operating system
Busted!
Maybe for navigate on the internet and use an Office suite...
Save live configuration will save whatever changes you might do while in the live environment and show those after you installed LegacyOS
Linux Fx, the best distro!!!!
No, LinuxFX is dangerous to use. Try something else with KDE desktop and customize it to look like Windows is you want
@@user-tc9tb3a fedora is dangerous, linux fx is love
i use windows 11 ghost spectre brother
LinuxFX is cool but you wouldn't mention it in the same sentence as legacy hardware. It's an absolute resource hog, probably due to the Windows 10 theme pack.
@@lisanalghaib fedora is way way better than linux FX it anything else you can name
15:04 and you can see why dt and all systemD fanboys are dangerous for linux... they do not really know other init systems and why typing whereis systemD shows these results and what these mean... sorry DT you do it again and again... i suggest better stay on wm's and the copy paste commands of systemD.... OTHER INITS are for real linux users!
A fake iso